false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179062624m/870142.jpg 870142 4 A glorious, edible tour of Paris through six decades of writing from <i>Gourmet</i> magazine, edited and introduced by Ruth Reichl<br><br>For sixty years the best food writers have been sending dispatches from Paris to <i>Gourmet</i>. Collected here for the first time, their essays create a unique and timeless portrait of the world capital of love and food. When the book begins, just after the war, we are in a hungry city whose chefs struggle to find the eggs and cream they need to re-create the cuisine from before the German occupation. We watch as Paris comes alive again with zinc-topped tables crowded with people drinking café au lait and reveling in crisp baguettes, and the triumphant rebirth of three-star cuisine. In time, nouvelle cuisine is born and sweeps through a newly chic and modern city. It is all here: the old-time bourgeois dinners, the tastemakers of the fashion world, the hero-chefs, and, of course, Paris in all its snobbery and refinement, its inimitable pursuit of the art of fine living. Beautifully written, these dispatches from the past are intimate and immediate, allowing us to watch the month-by-month changes in the world&#8217;s most wonderful city. <b>Remembrance of Things Paris</b> is a book for anyone who wants to return to a Paris where a buttery madeleine is waiting around every corner.<br><br>Contributors include Louis Diat, Naomi Barry, Joseph Wechsberg, Judith and Evan Jones, Don Dresden, Lillian Langseth-Christensen, Diane Johnson, Michael Lewis, and Jonathan Gold. 855514 16 3 2004 Remembrance of Things Paris: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet (Modern Library Food) total:47|5:8|4:11|3:25|2:3|1:0| 47 165 166 9 2 0 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 17:46:40 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 11:00:16 -0800 2009 Paris in the 1960s and 1970s, Described by Joseph Wechsberg and Naomi Berry. And therein lies the problem.

I expected, from the subtitle and from the other Gourmet collection I've read, to find here a variety of writers covering the full time span. An...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 10:03:56 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 19:01:51 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 16 19:28:56 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 11 08:00:49 -0800 2009
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